"Teacher, you look so good."
"Why do you say that?"
"Maybe it's because I personally like the combination of metal elements and flesh. This metal hollow mask looks so cool! And it's very suitable for here.
As a neutral group in the old world, the Pain Monks will not be excluded by the dead.
Any individual in the Old World, whether alive or dead, in any form, as long as they pose a serious threat to the world's growth and the development of epidemics and their "sin" exceeds the limit, they will be wanted and arrested by the Monastery of Pain.
The monks could then travel to any area where criminals might be, including the source of the epidemic, and local personnel had to assist them in capturing the criminals.
Wearing such a mask can not only enhance your prestige as a teacher, but also prevent you from being rejected by the dead. It is a very good outfit... Of course, the most important thing is that it looks good. "
"That's fine, let's go."
When the black leather shoes took a step forward, there was a feeling of passing through a barrier. The black mouth city with the dead hanging behind him disappeared instantly, and the temperature dropped sharply to minus 40 degrees Celsius.
The darkness surged in like a tide, and was finally blocked five meters away by the white light between the candles.
Not only did Yi Chen not feel any fear, but he was actually amazed at this manifestation of darkness.
"Thirteen, is it the same in the Dark Place?"
"It can only be said to be similar. According to the records in the book and my previous experience, the darkness in the Dark Land is more violent and unrestrained, and there will not be such a regular and even tide."
"Well, let's go explore it if we have the chance in the future."
"Okay~ Teacher, I also long to explore the mysteries of darkness. After all, my original intention and duty in being created is to explore darkness.
Next, we need to pay special attention to the issue of time when we go deep into the realm of the dead..."
As she spoke, Thirteen unbuttoned the two buttons on the top of her clothes, revealing an hourglass device embedded in her chest. The sand inside was very special and shone with a special luster.
"In the realm of the dead beyond the Bonfire Valley, even time itself is aging.
It is rumored that time is completely dead deep in the original tomb. If we don't pay attention to the time issue, we may age along with time. By the time we come out, dozens or even hundreds of years may have passed in the outside world.
In short, as long as you, teacher, stay connected with me, you can regain your sense of time.
If we are forced to separate, you, teacher, must find a way to calculate the time yourself and never forget the concept of time. "
"Death from aging over time... I understand."
Yi Chen was not very afraid of this. He had a very strong sense of time. He was able to escape from the orphanage because he could generate a perfect clock in his brain.
It is the same now. A brain clock is directly carved into the epileptic brain and driven by hydraulic power using the flow of black liquid.
After a brief exchange, the two of them officially went deeper.
The length of the canyon passage was beyond imagination. It took a whole day to finally get through it. If I had a decent mount, it would naturally save a lot of time.
As you walk out of the canyon, the range of light becomes wider.
The effective visual range was increased to about 50 meters, and it was barely possible to see clearly within a 100-meter range.
However, the remaining eyes provided by Little Grape can increase the effective visual range to one thousand meters and capture any possible danger.
Strangely enough, there were no dead bodies in sight.
Clearly, outside the mountains, whether in the Black Mouth Fortress or the plains, there were traces of the dead everywhere.
Now, after passing through the mountains and canyons and arriving at the real realm of the dead, there is not a single dead person to be seen. There are only tombstones of various sizes. Some of the towering huge tombstones are even tens of meters high.
"Huh? These tombstones are actually growing..."
Yi Chen looked down at a normal-sized tombstone beside him, and using perspective, he discovered that the part of the tombstone buried underground actually had arm-shaped "roots" growing out of it, which were constantly absorbing nutrients.
Moreover, these tombstones do not correspond to corpses. They are just a kind of "dead things" that simply grow here.
The little Grape, who was born in the cemetery, also crawled out at the first opportunity, with all the black hair on its body standing up.
"Wow! This place is amazing! If I can stay buried here for a long time, maybe I can unlock more memories and awaken more ancient corpses in my body."
Yi Chen also added: "Indeed, this place is very suitable for you. After I meet the original deceased, I will see if I can get you an identity as a deceased person."
"Sure! If I become stronger, it means you become stronger, William... There seems to be something that doesn't belong to a tombstone in front of us, let's go and take a look."
Following the visual instructions given by Little Grape, you will find a signpost with ancient words engraved on it giving the name of the current area: Tombstone Forest.
There are also seven stone signposts growing on it, pointing to different areas, but there are no clear place names. All the signposts have only one word written on them - tomb.
"What does this mean..."
Thirteen, who was standing by, reached out and scratched her head.
"It is rumored that in addition to the original tomb, there are six other underground tombs in the realm of the dead... Those who are resurrected and awaken in the Tombstone Forest will stand where we are now and make an important 'choice'.
Once you choose a cemetery, it cannot be changed.
Different cemeteries correspond to different functions of the dead. I don’t know what they are specifically. Anyway, the best choice is naturally the original cemetery. After all, that is the source of the epidemic where the dead were originally located.”
"Once you choose one of the seven cemeteries, you cannot change it... As a visitor, are the rules the same for me? If they are, it will be a bit difficult. If you fail to choose the original cemetery, you will miss a lot of opportunities and may even encounter danger.
Little Grape! Maximize the visuals and adjust to a level that can resolve the state of the deadly plague bacteria."
As Hui Jin's eyes opened between his eyebrows, he coordinated with Yi Chen's own eyes to focus on a single point, and he could see the colonies of bacteria that used flagella to spray thick mist.
Although these bacterial communities are distributed throughout the forest, their concentration gradients and flow directions are different, and the bacterial communities flowing to different cemetery areas also have morphological and structural differences.
Yi Chen compared it with the gangrene mist bacteria released by the dead ridge laike and soon found a group of colonies with a high degree of similarity and the most primitive bacterial structure.
"This way, follow me!"
Following the flow of the fungus, the terrain between the tombstone forests gradually descended until…
"Teacher, be careful!"
Shisan suddenly reached out and grabbed Yi Chen's clothes, using all his strength to pull the teacher back.
Yi Chen came back to his senses and his vision changed from the microscopic world to the macroscopic world. What he saw before him was no longer a forest of tombstones, but a bottomless abyss, into which he had just stepped.
"I just..."
"Teacher, you must be overly focused on one thing, which has caused your attention to disappear and you are lost."
“It’s really hard to adapt to the area where the dead live. Who would have thought that the edge of the forest actually corresponds to a cliff and abyss, and the original tomb is actually underneath it
There is absolutely no way to walk down, so is there no choice but to climb down?"
Thirteen nodded, "Teacher, your choice should be correct. It is rumored that the original tomb is located at the deepest part of the place where the dead are... I didn't expect it to be under such a deep abyss.
Be careful, the most dangerous and terrifying lair of the dead is below. "
"Well, Thirteen, can you climb down?"
Thirteen stared into the depths with her hollow candlelight eyes, "It's a bit difficult... Many parts of my body are about to break, and the adhesive is about to fail."
"I'll try to buy you some materials to strengthen it later. Come on my back."
When Thirteen climbed onto his back by himself,
Yi Chen immediately activated the ability of the needle chain, causing his fingers and toes to grow spikes, and he climbed towards the bottom of the abyss.